Universal Insurance

So it looks as if, instead of universal health care, what we’re going to get is mandatory universal health insurance, with employers and individuals responsible for themselves, and a punishing fine if you don’t buy it. WTF?!
I should’ve been out there screaming and hollering with the crazies. Turns out they’re not so crazy after all.
The [...]

Porn Will Make You Gay

What were you told it would do to you?
You’ll go blind. / Your wee wee will fall off. / You’ll burn in hell.
Or, how ’bout this? Pornography will make you gay.
That’s the up-and-coming tactic the current generation of prudish parents plan to use to stop their kids from wanking. They say their target is porn, [...]

Amerika’s True Colors?

Well, well, well. So, here we are at last. All these years of politeness towards people with disabilities were, apparently, just PCBS*.
I refer, of course, to yesterday’s town hall meeting on health care reform in New Jersey, where a woman in a wheelchair was heckled while trying to tell her story and how reforming the [...]

Schilling as a Senator? {Shudder}

Curt Schilling a Senator? I shudder to think of it. See  my post on Schilling from awhile back–it reveals something about the man.

The Kopechne Situation

On Facebook someone linked up an article by Henry Rollins entitled “Where is MaryJo Kopechne’s eulogy?”
I didn’t read it; I know what it says. The title alone made me feel violated. I hope none of the Kennedys see it.
Why? After all, I myself wrote about the Kennedy family’s inhuman treatment of Rosemary, the alleged mentally [...]

Letter from Ling and Lee

Laura Ling wrote the following letter to everyone who did anything towards getting her and Euna Lee released from North Korea:
Dear Friends,
While in detention in North Korea, isolated and scared, one of the things that gave me strength and sustained my faith was hearing about the groundswell of support for Euna and me…. 

Through the [...]

Seven Years of Herotica 7

7 X 7:  Seven-Years of Herotica 7:

Writing, Publishing, Diversity and Political Correctness

Herotica 7, a collection of erotic fiction I edited in 2003, has suddenly and without fanfare finally been published. (The first print run of 2000 sold out, but a second printing is on the way.) Amazon shows it as a re-issue, [...]

A Haunted Baby Sister

I don’t know much more about Eunice Kennedy Shriver than what the general public knows, but the fact that she worked tirelessly on behalf of people with mental disabilities, and had a sister who was believed to be mentally challenged, tells me a great deal about her. In the book A Difference in the Family, [...]

Republicans Learning to Hack?

This morning, I am told, both Twitter and Facebook were, for the most part, inoperable.When I heard this news, I was immediately sure, on a gut level, that it was a hack attack from the same people who’ve been disrupting health care reform discussions.
Yesterday, Democracy for America asked progressives to sign a “Public Option Action [...]

Thank you Mr. President…Clinton, that is

Thank you President Clinton for bringing home the two journalists from North Korea. What a guy!

Update next morning: What a reunion that was! I was glad the media wasn’t too intrusive, that the reuniting of the families was low-key and personal, even though we all got to see it. Hanna Lee, Euna’s daughter, looked absolutely [...]